I love long-form videos that tell information and stories. Documentaries about most any topics, especially ones that last an hour or more, are my bread and butter. But when I’m using YouTube on my TV, I can’t tell from thumbnails what the quality of a channel is. Sometimes I find gold, but other times it’s obvious they’re using an AI voice over or AI imagery and I immediately turn it off. I’m so tired of trudging through the slop, even though it’s just beginning.
So for now, I figure I’ll check with y’all - do you have any preferred/recommended channels that make the sort of video I’m looking for, that are still human-made? I’d love to hear about them.
Tech Ingredients - DIY-ing machines that seem way more complicated than they actually are
AvE - tool teardowns with the kind of crude humour you only get from being a spannerjockey
Greenhill Forge - Chap that builds homesteading/self sufficiency/off-grid equipment, brilliant at explaining the underlying principles without any jargon
Maximus Ironthumper - An off-grid living guy that’s currently building a portable pipe organ in an old Zil truck (and refurbishing said truck in the process)
Styropyro - Master of the question “How dangerous can I make this high voltage device/ Laser without dying?”
Nilered /Nileblue - A mad scientist with the budget to do things like ‘making a bacon flavoured apple’ just for the hell of it
Dankpods - A channel with the widest variety of music tech and creator of the “Nugget dip” - a series about looking at second hand MP3/phone/early 00’s tech that ended up in second hand stores
Alexander the ok - Highly researched and well written videos on topics such as “What is the dumbest nuclear bomb ever put into service?”
Just to name a few off the dome in a variety of Science/STEM topics